Button loop



p 1930- R. J. HQDG: 1,775,102

BUTTON LOOP Filed June 28, 1929 HEJBEFIT -l-IUDGE UNITED STATES ROBERTJ. HODGE, OF WEST HAVEN, CONNECTICUT, ASSIGNOR TO THE AMERICAN PATENTOFFICE BUCKLE COMPANY, OF WEST HAVEN, CONNECTICUT, A CORPORATION OFCONNECT- ICUT BUTTON LOOP Application filed June 28,

This invention relates to button loops hav ing multiple means forconnecting a single strap with spaced buttons carried by a garment,0rthe like, intended to be supported by the strap.

The object of the invention is to provide a double button loop withsubstantially rigid outer side arms but with laterally yieldable innerside arms held relatively movable therefor by means of a coupling.

The invention consists in the novel constructions, to be hereinafterdescribed or claimed, for carrying out the above stated object and suchother objects as may hereinafter appear.

The character of the invention may be best understood by reference toone illustrative device embodying the invention and illustrated by thefigures in the accompanying drawing in which the Figure l is anelevation of a double button loop in normal condition; and the Figure 2is a similar elevation but illustrating the double loop in expandingcondition.

The device, as illustrated, is a double button loop for connecting asuspender strap to two buttons properly spacedapart and provided by agarment andcomprises the two button receiving loops 1 and2 and the twobutton retaining loops 3 and 4, each of the receiving loops beingassociated in axial alignment with a retaining loop having an expansiblerestrictedjentrance. The double button loop is preferably formed of asingle piece of resilient wireof which the middle portion is bent toform the suspension loop 5 by which the device is suspended upon alooped strap. The remaining portions of the wire are each bent to formthe outer side portions 6 of the double button loop and then each turnedinwardly and returned to form the inner side portions 7 thereof,theextremities of the wire being bent inwardly into longitudinal alignmentwith tips 8 bent upwardly and normally resting in spaced relation. Acoupling clip 9, similar to that described in an application of theapplicant of even filing date herewith on an improvement in buttonloops, is here employed in inverted position. with open ends and baseadapted to enclose the tips 1929. Serial No. 374,401.

8. The bosses 10, extending inwardly from both sides of the clip,provide stops against which the tips 8 laterally rest in normalposition, as illustrated by the Figure 1, the bosses cooperating withthe closed top to lock the bent tips 8 within the clip with a lateralfreedom of movement toward and away from one another, as illustrated bythe Figure Each button loop 1 and 2 is provided with a yieldablerestricted opening 11 through which communication is had between each ofthe axially aligned loops 1 and 3 and 2 and 4, respectively.

As the spaced buttons having the shanks l2 and 13, illustrated in crosssection by the Figure 1, are received within the loops 1 and 2,respectively, a downwardly directed force exerted upon these shanks willcause each to act as a cam to operate and expand a restricted opening,as illustrated by the Figure 2, to permit the passing of each shank intoa retaining loop. As this expansion takes place each inner side portion7 is thrust laterally inward toward one another, their movement beinglimited only by the meeting of the tips 8 within the clip 9, theresiliency of the wire being relied upon to return the inner sideportions 7 upon the passing of the shanks, into their respectiveretaining loops. The extremities having the tips 8, if desired, may beotherwise formed and any form of coupling means in place of the clip asillustrated may be employed: for the invention is not limited to anyspecific form of construction and the details of the device may bevaried to produce the novel features herein de scribed and claimed andto advantageously combine such a double loop in connection with otherelements employed in garment supporters.

I claim:

1. A double button loop having associated button loops relatively spacedand comprising a rigid structure having depending side portions eachforming a resilient button loop having a contracted throat. alignedextremities of the loophaving bent tips normally spaced apart andprovided by the inner portions of both button loops, and a couplinghaving means for securing the aligned extremities and permitting them alimited relative freedom of movement upon the expansion of thecontracted throats.

2. A double button loop comprising asingle piece of resilient Wirehaving a middle portion bent to form a suspension loop and the endportions bent to form associated button loops, each depending in spacedrelation from the suspension loop, aligned extremities of the Wirehaving bent tips normally spaced apart, and a coupling having meansforsecuring the aligned extremities and permitting them a limitedrelative freedom of movement upon the expansion of the associated buttonloops.

3. A double button loop having associated button loops relativelyspaced, the loopscomprising a resilient Wire having a middle portionbent to form a sus ensio-n loo 3 end 30rtions of the Wire depending fromthe suspension loop and bent to form the outer s de arms of theassociated button loops, and then inwardly bent and returned upwardly toform the inner side arms, aligned extremities of the Wire having benttips provided bythe inner side arms, and a coupling having means forsecuring the'aligned extremities and permitting them a limited relativefreedom of movement upon the expansion of the associated loops.

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